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[JISC] Weeknote 2/33

Bit of a strange meeting/event dominated week. Was in London more than is probably healthy for a Brizzle boy like me. Main task on Monday was following through with contacting some of my projects to talk them through closing down the projects and what JISC expects from the final paperwork. This highlighted a bit of…

February 27, 2010
Is ePrints Going to be the WordPress of the Repository World?

Amongst the many interesting things that were discussed at the Repositories and the Cloud event on Tuesday was the plans for ePrints to offer what Les Carr referred to as a ‘Blogger’ like option. Now I can only assume that Les has a long held fondness for Blogger as he hosts his RepositoryMan blog there…

February 24, 2010
BeerSpotr – social drinking for anti-social people

At some point last week I spotted a tweet that looked something like @beerspotr pint:butcombegold**** and wondered what was going on but I didn’t think much about it again til today when I remembered and decided to take a look again. I’m glad I did as BeerSpotr is a fun idea – it is basically…

February 21, 2010
Listening to The Story

On Friday I had the distinct pleasure of taking a short break from JISC-world and attending The Story, an event organised and curated by Matt Locke from Channel 4 although this was very much a personal project rather than anything work related. This was a very different kind of event – almost a spoken word…

February 21, 2010
[JISC] Weeknote 1/33

Inspired by BERG and the growing number of contributor to weeknotes.com I have decided to do my own weeknotes for the remainder of my time at JISC. In case you are wondering the numbering system is based on what I am pretty sure are the amount of weeks I have left at JISC this time…

February 19, 2010